In some circles elections are held to be a sort of universal balm or cure for what ails a society. Terrorism? Elections will cure it. Poverty? Just need elections. Corruption? Elections will throw the bums out. Well, in reality elections sometimes tear a society apart into warring tribes.

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Read it. The effect of Regressive attitudes on human welfare: Preserving the ancient culture is more important than people prospering.

I’m surprised that they don’t push for a return to medieval strip-cultivation in Europe, where farmers were lucky to get three or four times their seed. (Oh, sorry, forgot that “diversity” only applies to non-white people.)

Read it. And pity a country that thinks more of political correctness than its own heritage.

A Reigate and Banstead Borough Council spokes-woman said: “The site is located on the Green Belt and the developments constitute inappropriate development, which is harmful to the openness of the Green Belt.”

Apparently the rock band Journey was looking for a new lead singer, and found him on YouTube. I read about it in the Wall Street Journal, which unfortunately hasn’t dropped it’s paywall yet (c’mon, Rupert, get with the program), but the guy sounds amazingly like Steve Parry. Proof here and here. And you can search YouTube for Arnal Pineda and get a lot of the material that’s been posted on it.

Speculation is that YouTube will be the audition venue of choice very soon, if it isn’t already.

Read it. And you can believe as much or as little of that as you care to.

Just because Bill Gates has a lot of money doesn’t make him an expert economist, or a political philosopher. The same goes for Warren Buffet, although I’ll listen to Buffet when it comes to business analysis, since he has a good track record there. Bill Gates doesn’t even have all that good a track record in IT, much less Econ.

I wish non-socialist people would just quit using the term “capitalism”, a word invented by Marxists that operates entirely within their little sandbox of a focus on production. The free market is not about production and never has been; it’s about distribution, unrestricted exchange, and I wish there were a good term for that. “Freemarketarian” is about as close as I’ve seen, and it’s pretty ugly.